Category: Old Stuff

NYC: Audacity of Desperation The Anti-Advertising Agency with Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee are in an exhibition this weekend in New York. The group show includes the AAA’s Samaras Project. “The Audacity of Desperation” Presented by PS 122 Gallery at DEMO Space 122 150 1st Avenue, enter on 1st Avenue, take stairs to second floor…

Learn how to cook bacon. Scott (the guy in the video) is a great friend of mine. He looks respectable here, which is hilarious if you know him. open

Cognitive dissonance – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance Cognitive dissonance is a psychological state that describes the uncomfortable feeling when a person begins to understand that something the person believes to be true is, in fact, not true. Similar to ambivalence, the term cognitive dissonance describes conflicting thoughts or beliefs (cognitions) that occur at the…

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Finite and Infinite Games – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games In the book, Carse demonstrates a way of looking at actions in life as being a part of at least two types of what he describes as “games”, finite and infinite. Both games are played within rules, as agreed upon by the participants; however, the…

Candy Chang Candy is an artist, graphic designer, and urban planner who lives in Chinatown in NYC. She likes to fool around with public space and make city issues more accessible and engaging. Read her blog, view her work, and feel the power. open

Our oceans are turning into plastic…are we? http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/travel-leisure/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we.shtml A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility…and worse. Captain Charles Moore Fate can take strange forms, and so perhaps it does not seem…

TOXIC  – GARBAGE ISLAND – VBS.TV http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=1154 Before this trip, I was never all that crazy about the ocean. I’ve always appreciated the fact that it generates the majority of the world’s oxygen and keeps us nice and far from places like Britain, but in terms of any sort of awe or “respect” it just…

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Corporate-Sponsored “Slacktivism”: Bigger and More Dangerous than the Urban Dictionary Realizes http://www.prwatch.org/node/7403 According to UrbanDictionary.com’s definition, slacktivism pertains only to individual behavior, but shortly after I grasped the meaning of the word, I started to see that slacktivism is really much bigger than that. I started to see that corporations perpetrate large-scale, organized slacktivism as…